IRA Violence Demands
A Military Response

By

Jonathan Stevenson

Updated Oct. 14, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

The Irish Republican Army&rsquo;s double-bombing on Monday of the British Army&rsquo;s Thiepval barracks in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, injuring 31 people, marked the end of the IRA&rsquo;s de facto cease-fire in Northern Ireland. Unlike the Canary Wharf bombing in February in London, which officially ended the 17-month universal IRA cease-fire, the Lisburn attack clearly was intended to kill people. It came with no warning and targeted the most heavily secured military installation in the United Kingdom.